They don’t, but that’s only the second most interesting misunderstanding of the bot fly’s biology. Asa Fitch (1809-1879) was a sober-minded scientist not given to flights of fancy.

We had a stray cat adopt us recently. When cleaning her up, we noticed she had a sore place on her skin that she had been biting and licking. We washed it and saw right away there was something weird.

Zack: A fly in the genus cuterebra is more commonly referred to as a botfly.These are flies, the maggots of which cause a symptom known as myiasis. Myiasis is the invasion of living tissue by fly ...

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In last week's column we discussed reasons you might want to keep your cat strictly indoors. Well, here is another one: the Cuterebra botfly.